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Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A List of New York Almanacs, 1694-1850 written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Bombay Almanac and Book of Direction, for 1850 written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milton Drake
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Almanacs of the United States written by Milton Drake and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Lofaro
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811753697
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters written by Michael Lofaro and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of this nineteenth-century comic superhero. But what may come as a surprise to many is that the legendary frontiersman also served as the fictional narrator of a collection of outrageous tall tales about women in the same Crocket Almanacs in which he “recorded” his own adventures. Conceived as a marketing device by nineteenth-century publishers hoping to gain a share of the lucrative almanac market, such stories made these slim volumes the best-selling and longest-running series of comic almanacs published in the United States before the Civil War. Booking back at them now, the Crocket Almanacs offer a true “fun house mirror” view of the culture of antebellum America.
Author : Carolyn Schmidt Brown
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870496271
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature written by Carolyn Schmidt Brown and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Carolyn Brown s mind, the tall tale is not necessarily an account of the adventures of a larger-than-life hero, nor is it just a humorous first-person narrative exaggerated to outlandish proportions. It is as well an interaction between teller and audience a game played at the hazy border between the credible and the incredible, a challenge and an entertainment at the same time. The tall tale is also a social statement that identifies and binds a folk group by flaunting the peculiar knowledge and experiences of group members, and it is a tool for coping with a stressful or even chaotic world, for conquering life s problems by laughing at them.
Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199976406
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Beneath the American Renaissance written by David S. Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.
Author : Catherine L. Albanese
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226011461
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Nature Religion in America written by Catherine L. Albanese and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-09-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the multiple histories of American nature religion and explores the moral and spiritual responses the encounter with nature has provoked throughout American history. Traces the connections between movements and individuals. Includes figures from popular culture such as the Hutchinson Family Singers and Davy Crockett as well as Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and John Muir.
Author : Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Publisher : Galaxy Books
ISBN 13 : 0195040392
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Disorderly Conduct written by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and published by Galaxy Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist history. Throughout Disorderly Conduct, Smith-Rosenberg startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner emotional life now take on a new meaning.
Author : American Art Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rare Americana, Comprising Almanacs, Early Juvenilia and Text-books, Newspapers, Colonial and Revolutionary Broadsides, Periodicals, Revolutionary Orderly Books, Indian Narratives and History, Negro Literature, Rare Connecticut and Rhode Island Tracts and Broadsides, Narratives and History of California and the West... written by American Art Association and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the following catalogue an attempt is made to describe a collection of which the nucleus was formed by Samuel Elam, of Vancluse, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a cultured student of American history: Colonial, Revolutionary and local, and of the history and literature of the Negro race."--Note.
Author : Boston Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791093638
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Herman Melville's Moby-Dick written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville was already considered to be a successful author when he wrote Moby-Dick in just under two years. Yet despite his earlier success, the novel was widely misunderstood by its 19th-century readers, who expected a more traditional adventure novel. Today Moby-Dick is considered to be an undisputed classic, and many believe it to be the epitome of the great American novel. With an unforgettable cast of characters, inluding the mad Captain Ahab, Melville skillfully documents the Pequod crew's tragic hunt for the great white whale. The full-length essays presented in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Updated Edition provide expert commentary on the huge canvas of symbols themes, and subjects presented in this novel, as well as an introduction, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index, that will help students navigate confidently through Melville's masterpiece.
Author : Joseph Sabin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence Saunders Brigham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book An Account of American Almanacs and Their Value for Historical Study written by Clarence Saunders Brigham and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winifred Morgan
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133073
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)
Download or read book An American Icon written by Winifred Morgan and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.
Author : Matthew Kaiser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350187801
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire written by Matthew Kaiser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the earth-shattering cultural changes and political events that mark the decades between 1800 and 1920-shifting borders, socioeconomic upheaval, scientific and technological innovation, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, unprecedented overseas expansion by European and American imperial powers-it is no wonder that people in the Age of Empire turned to comedy in order to make sense of the contradictions that structure modern identity and navigate the sociocultural fault lines within modern life. Comical, humorous, and satirical cultural artifacts from the period capture the anxieties and aspirations, the petty resentments and lofty ideals, of a world buffeted by change. This volume explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions of comedy in the context of blackface minstrelsy, nonsense poetry, music hall and pantomime, comic almanacs and joke books, journalism, silent film, popular novels, and hygiene magazines, among other phenomena. It also provides a detailed account of contentious debates among social Darwinists, psychoanalysts, and political philosophers about the meaning and significance of comedy and laughter to human life. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identity, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics. These eight divergent approaches to comedy in the Age of Empire add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
Author : John Fitch Cleveland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register written by John Fitch Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
